TY - BOOK AU - Hartas,Dimitra TI - Educational research and inquiry : : Qualitative and quantitative approaches SN - 9781441178718 U1 - 370.72 PY - 2009/// CY - London PB - Continuum KW - Education-Research N1 - 1. Introduction 2. Educational research in inquiry: key issues and debates 3. The epistemological context of quantitative of qualitative research 4. Qualitative research as a method on inquiry in education 5. Quantitative research as methods of inquiry in education 6. Research questions and research design 7. Doing a literature review 8. Ethical considerations and legal issues in educational research 9. Action research 10. Ethnographic encounters with children 11. Children’s and young people’s participation within educational and civic settings- comparative case study approach to research 12. Researching classroom interaction and talk 13. Documentary research 14. The application of visual methodology in the exploration of the visual culture of schools 15. Interviewing as educational research methods 16. Experimental and quasi-experimental designs in educational research 17. Survey research in education 18. Evaluation research in education 19. Qualitative research analysis in education 20. Key concepts assumptions in quantitative data analysis 21. Preparing and inputting data in spss15 22. Exploring quantitative data 23. Between-group differences: comparing two or more means 24. Correlation and regression 25. Exploratory factor analysis 26. Writing up and presenting research ER -